Bureaucrat shifted, but not allowed to work

After much uncertainty, long waits outside her new office and exactly a week after she received her transfer order, H Zarina Begum is expected to take up her new posting as finance officer at the Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology (KMIO) on Tuesday.

| TNN | Updated: Jul 1, 2014, 07:22 IST

BANGALORE: After much uncertainty, long waits outside her new office and exactly a week after she received her transfer order, H Zarina Begum is expected to take up her new posting as finance officer at the Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology (KMIO) on Tuesday. This after assurance from senior bosses at the medical education department that her transfer order stands and there will be no revision.
Zarina, 54, had been posted as the finance officer at the Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology (KMIO) with immediate effect on June 24. She was earlier serving as finance manager in the state Food and Civil Supplies Corporation. Last Tuesday, when Zarina arrived at her new office, off Hosur Road, she was directed to come on June 26. But last Thursday too, she not allowed to take charge as Nimmy Hegde, her predecessor at Kidwai and successor at the food and civil supplies department where she is the new financial manager, hadn't shifted from her Kidwai office yet.

Begum later learnt from sources at Kidwai that her transfer order might change. On Monday, the official waited from 11am till 4 pm to meet the Kidwai director, before trudging out.

"I was told the director is busy but I learnt he left the office in the afternoon. I even asked his office to give me an endorsement citing reasons for not allowing me to report to work," Zarina told TOI.

Contacted around 3pm, Dr M Vijay Kumar, director, KMIO, said, "There is no confusion. There has been a transfer order and we will follow the same." The week-long uncertainty led Zarina to meet her seniors at the secretariat in Vidhana Soudha on Monday where she got the assurance.

Hegde, who was unavailable for comment, was said to be in her office at Kidwai on Monday as well.

Kidwai hospital has been in the eye of controversies, including an alleged drug procurement scam, following which the hospital head was suspended. He was reinstated later after moving court.

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